NEWPORT, Ky. -- It’s just past 2 p.m., and four enormous shadowy figures lie in wait just below the surface of the water in Newport Aquarium’s Amazon Exhibit. Feeding commences. While the tank is ...

Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...

Mark Wilson of FOX 13 Tampa Bay framed it like a plot twist for anglers: for years, the only realistic way to tangle with an arapaima was to book an expensive trip to the Amazon River, then sweat your ...

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Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), it's hard to imagine that the arapaima, the largest fish in the Amazon River basin, could ever go missing.

Chicagoans and visitors waiting to see the newest spaces at the Shedd Aquarium received a promising update on Monday. In a rare move, the aquarium released photos showing the progress of construction ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the moment a rare Arapaima fish native to the Amazon broke out of its aquarium in a store in Hebei, China on June 4. The ...

Like youngsters leaving home on the first day of kindergarten, the Milwaukee County Zoo's two arapaima fish needed a bit of coaxing. Though arapaima are among the world's largest freshwater fish and ...